this is quite embarrassing for me to share, but as a 30+ year old single female i have lingering doubts as to whether i can still meet a decent man and get married.. you all know how difficult it is for sisters to find an appropriate partner in the congregation.. and now, all the more so that i've learned ttatt.
i still am bound by low self-esteem, and i do have trust issues, especially with men.
i am very lonely and so i just keep myself busy with work to avoid depression (although it is also a great source of stress).. any other single females out there having similar thoughts?.
I am a male. I have been married since I was 18. It has been wonderful.
Having said that. If you have made it to 30 without getting married.
It probably is not that important to you.
So I wouldn't worry about it.
Just live your life, if it happens it happens.
But if you want to be proactive and do something about it.
Try eharmony.com
They are also advertising where they have a good 10 year success rate.
4 weeks of football and wimbledon tennis in between!?
life is beautiful.. aaahhhh!
i'm so excited!.
I went to a worl cup tune up friendly game here in St. Pete Florida.
Japan vs Zambia.
Japan beat Zambia. But it wasnt easy Zambia was ahead most of the game.
They seemed the better team most of the time.
I will root for Germany.
i was baptized in 1968. last meeting 2010. i have to say i was never 100% in.
there were times i absolutely believed, but i never really gave it my all.
never liked service, assemblies, meetings.
I was born in. I never liked it or that.
I had to get baptized to use the hall for our wedding which my inlaws wanted and I wanted a church/hall wedding also.
I got Baptized in 72 and between 72 and 75 I took it seriously as they fooled me about armeggedon and the end of the world.
After January 1 1976, I started fading and totally quit in 83.
when i first started going on "other" jw websites my head was spinning so i didn't say anything to my kids about what i had read.
steve hassan's material helped a lot it was when i read that, that i realised i need to free my kids.. i got a lot of advice from jwn too.. my daughter had moved cities and went to the hall we used to visit frequently.
things changed when she became a member instead of just a visitor.
I left in 83. My son was 9.
My wife stayed in another 10 years after I left, time flys in retrospect.
I appologized to my son for exposing him to such garbage.
And told him they said armeggedon was going to come in 75 and it still hasn't
come in 83.
I said we don't need somebody who doesn't know what they are talking about
telling us anything.
My son is 40. He is not a JW, never was.
My wife has been out of the tower for 20 years and celebrates all the holidays.
my best friend of 14 years and maid of honor passed away 2 months ago at age 32 after battling breast cancer for 6 years.
i haven't been the same since for many reasons.. as a jw kid i believed 144,000 chosen went to heaven, the good people would be resurrected including those who didn't have a chance to hear about jehovah, and the rest, which were of other religions and bad people, died and would cease to exist.
again, because i was a kid when i left, i never really understood the jw position on death and why they came to their conclusion.
Good people go to Florida or Arizona (if they aren't already there).
Bad people go to Detroit or Cleveland.
Rub a Dub
Rub a dub. I am already here, Florida.
I left cleveland 31 years ago to get here.
I guess I am kind of like Hugh Heffner.
I cant go someplace better when I die.
#1 rajesh koothrappali.
#2 amy farrah fowler.
rajesh because he's got sheldon's number.. amy because she reminds me so much of me.. when i was in school, i was never part of the "in" crowd.. i was viewed as weird and nerdish.. lol..
#1 rajesh koothrappali.
#2 amy farrah fowler.
rajesh because he's got sheldon's number.. amy because she reminds me so much of me.. when i was in school, i was never part of the "in" crowd.. i was viewed as weird and nerdish.. lol..
I like them all. That is why the show is so good.
If I had to choose, Sheldon is the star.
He is the one who won the most awards.
i took up cycing a couple of months ago just to get fitter and lose a bit of excess weight.. i bought a second-hand hybrid bike (weighs only slightly less than a truck) and fitted road tyres.
four or five times a week i will go for a ride after work for an hour or so.
i am fortunate enough to live in rural north england surrounded by limitless quiet roads.
For the middle 25 years of my work life I rode my bike to work evryday. 7.5 miles round trip.
Some days I would run.
I carried glasses for the bugs. They could be blinding. Sometimes the bugs still got in my eyes with glasses on.
When I rode to work. I would go down side streets through a trailer park and on the sidewalk of the major road.
I don't consider myself a cyclist but I do ride a lot. I ride my bike to 2 soccer games a month to watch the Tampa Bay Rowdies.
I live in Pinellas County Florida and they have converted abandoned train routes, tracks into trails from the north to the south of the
county. The part of Florida I live in is very cyclist friendly.
for me, that happy day was in morro bay, calif. it was the fall, oct 1958 or 9. gorgeous weather.
the sun was shining and the wind was coming off of the ocean.. at that time, morro bay was unassigned territory.. talesin on another thread was talking about a lovely day she had, going with her grandfather, talking with a mr languages.
lol.
I never liked it.
we found some people who were happy to welcome us into their homes, even offering us food and drink.. sometimes, they would flag us down and ask for the magazines, walk miles to the kh meetings, come to our defense if someone got ugly or rude.. now, jw's are either routinely ignored or outright vilified.. no one respects them anymore.. sad.. .
Being a Jw was only fun when I was very young and knew no better. After about 5 or 6 years
of age it started getting old. The constant meetings and putting on a suit and sitting without
wiggling and being bored to death, and the bad music and worse singing.
All the tv shows, I missed and playing with the kids in the neighborhood after dinner,
because I had to go to meetings, I will never get back.
